[issue9416] complex formatting incorrectly omits a negative zero real part

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

Well, that's a separate issue, so should have its own feature request.  The main difficulty is that Python has no notion of a 'pure imaginary' type: one would have to implement such a type to get this behaviour.

C99 defines the _Imaginary types for exactly this reason.  Unfortunately, that part of the specification is optional, and almost no-one has implemented it.  (Sun might be an exception.)

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